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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1901
Page
3
A childlike poem recounts a small cook burning a cake while away with a playful cat. The mother consoles, saying accidents happen, as the kitchen lesson ends with reassurance.
A tale within a column details a strange recruitment for a lethal experiment. A skeptical narrator answers a wanted ad for a witness to a scientist’s “mall bacterium” plan, culminating in a hostage-like demand, escape, and revelation of a dangerous plot amid a chase and rescue.
The column surveys scattered items: Shirey of Indiananauz and Foster, Aguinaldo’s capture, British Columbia land openings in Burnaby, Bishop Potter’s lament on oversized sermons, Ventura County road work and Standard Oil heating plans, a Massachusetts man facing perpetual board bills after 282 counts, Louis Wilkins’ height and weight feats, Elena Duse’s baptism cradle tale, and Gaelic lines on Flora Macdonald’s statue.
The Boston Transcript notes looming Birch forest depletion due to spool mills consuming 35,000,000 or 4,000,000 feet of birch timber annually to produce 800,000,000 spools, with thread capacity enough to circuмnavigate the earth 3,600 times. It cites 15,000,000 to 20,000 feet shipped to Scotland as spool bars and reflects on age milestones of statesmen for a Republican committee projection.
An overview of King Edward VII listing his vast realm of about 4% of humanity, his wealth as prince and king, and private login aliases. It notes the password to the Tower of London, disguise practices, and the annual survival odds per insurance tables. Predictions warn of possible violent death and deathly risks, with a survey of his public speaking breadth across arts, history, engineering, and civic issues.
A fashion preview notes hopsacking in deep cream or dark natural flax will be the fall’s newest fabric. Renaissance styles fade as lace trims rise, with guipure door and point darabe favored. Majestic Louis X velvet coats and Venetian painted gowns shape elaborate autumn outfits, while tailor-made Bron blouses and Louis XIV coats appear among advances. Emerald green will dominate contrasts in hats and ensembles, with long forty inch top coats and shorter variants to suit winter wear.
A playful Smart Set item features a character nicknamed Fe who had been refused and kissed. The dialogue shows a shift as one asks what has come over the other while the other cites a doctor recommending more exercise, framing a light humorous scene.
A truncated London Philadelphia Bulletin fragment notes a girl with four teeth in her head observed yesterday and mentions Ste wearing side combs in a clipped, unclear context.
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